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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: An LLM Query Understanding Service

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/9/an-llm-query-understanding-service/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: An LLM Query Understanding Service Feedly Summary: An LLM Query Understanding Service Doug Turnbull recently wrote about how all search is structured now: Many times, even a small open source LLM will be able to turn a search query into reasonable structure at relatively low cost. In…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/4/gemini-25-pro-pricing/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently the top model on LM Arena and, from my own testing, a superb model for OCR, audio transcription and long-context coding. You can now pay for it! The new…

  • Hacker News: Blasting Past WebP – An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit

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    Source URL: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/03/blasting-past-webp.html Source: Hacker News Title: Blasting Past WebP – An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides an in-depth analysis of the NSO Group’s zero-click exploit, known as BLASTPASS, which targets vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS, specifically focusing on how manipulative content…

  • The Register: Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/google_l4_storage_performance_improvements/ Source: The Register Title: Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks Feedly Summary: Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew ‘L4’ automation and cache Google has revealed that it still relies on hard disk drives for most of its storage needs, but…

  • Cloud Blog: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-colossus-optimizes-data-placement-for-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices Feedly Summary: From YouTube and Gmail to BigQuery and Cloud Storage, almost all of Google’s products depend on Colossus, our foundational distributed storage system. As Google’s universal storage platform, Colossus achieves throughput that rivals or exceeds…

  • Hacker News: Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE

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    Source URL: https://retr0.blog/blog/llama-rpc-rce Source: Hacker News Title: Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a detailed, technical exploration of exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability within the Llama.cpp framework, specifically focusing on a heap-overflow issue and its associated mitigations. It offers insights into the unique memory…

  • Cloud Blog: Build gen AI agents using Google Cloud databases

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/learn-how-to-connect-agents-to-google-cloud-databases/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Build gen AI agents using Google Cloud databases Feedly Summary: As enterprises build generative AI agents to strengthen their security posture or improve their customer experience, they need access to real-time data. Because most business critical and real-time data is stored and processed in databases, you need ways…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI platform: o1-pro

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/o1-pro/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI platform: o1-pro Feedly Summary: OpenAI platform: o1-pro OpenAI have a new most-expensive model: o1-pro can now be accessed through their API at a hefty $150/million tokens for input and $600/million tokens for output. That’s 10x the price of their o1 and o1-preview models and a full…